Well, this will fit in nicely with the Occupy movement’s main talking point: A new nonpartisan study finds the gap between rich and poor in California is now larger than at any time in the last 30 years. The Public Policy Institute report finds that less than half of Californians now live in a middle-class household.

“Even though the great recession technically ended in 2009,” Bohn said, “to many families it certainly does not feel like it ended. California families saw declines in their income through at least 2010.”

Bohn said that while household incomes declined across the economic spectrum, declines for low-income families were the largest. “This reflects the long-term trend of how economic gains have not been shared across the economic distribution in California.”